2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I'm old, white, liberal, female and disgusted. [View all]djean111
(14,255 posts)services, increased H-1B visas, the TPP and other corporate "trade" deals, cluster bombs, interventionism and regime change, saying NO to single payer and saying YES to less Wall Street regulation.
The Democratic Party is oozing to the right, greased by big money. The New Democrat Coalition is a Third Way-advised group that more and more of Congress and mayors and governors belong to. DINOs.
What will happen, IMO, is the rise of a progressive/Liberal party. I hope so, because after August, when I will vote for an actual progressive in the primary for Rubio's seat (and Miss Debbie was none to happy about that), I will be "unaffiliated" for the first time in my life. I am ashamed to belong to a party that stands for the things I mentioned.